LINGUIST List 8.356

Thu Mar 13 1997

Calls: English, Computational, Dialogue

Editor for this issue: T. Daniel Seely <seelylinguistlist.org>

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The 7th Nordic Conference for English Studies will be organized in Turku,
Finland 28-31 May, 1998. Plenary speakers include Jean Aitchison (Oxford),
Steven Connor (London) and Judit Molnar (Debrecen).
Papers are invited on topics related to all aspects of English Studies.
More information at URL http://www.utu.fi/hum/engfil/naes98.html

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CALL FOR PAPERS
COMPUTATIONAL NATURAL LANGUAGE LEARNING (CoNLL97)
Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group
in Natural Language Learning
In conjunction with
ACL'97/EACL'97 Joint Conference
Madrid, Spain, 11-12th July 1997
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Up-to-the-minute information available at:
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~conll97/
THE WORKSHOP
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The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers in the area
of the machine learning of natural language.
(ACL attendees who are interested in attending CoNLL but are uncertain
as to whether they have adequate background are advised that the
following ACL-97/EACL-97 tutorials programmed to take place on July 7
will provided useful background and are accordingly recommended:
Machine Learning of Natural Language (David Powers) and Maximum
Entropy Modeling (Eric Sven Ristad). The two tutorials are intended to
complement each other and are specifically aimed at providing the
requisite background for effective participation in CoNLL.)
Papers should present heretofore unpublished research addressing any
topic on the application of machine-learning methods to natural
language or the computer implementation of linguistic or
psycholinguistic models of language acquisition. Such topics may occur
in (but are not restricted to) the fields of:
* grammar acquisition for NLP applications
* acquisition of phonology and/or morphology
* acquisition of semantic and ontological relations
* computational models of language acquisition
* computational models in cognitive linguistics
* computational models of universal grammar
* comparative evaluation of different learning techniques
* theoretical models in formal lingusitics and learning theory
* statistical and information-theoretic classification
* adaptive and optimizing NLP systems
* computational lexicon acquisition
* automatic tagging
* linguistic knowledge discovery
Papers are equally sought on applied and theoretical topics and are not
limited to any particular area, level or application of language
technolgoy..
The workshop is a two-day event with approximately 20 papers plus time
for discussion.
ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEES
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The organizing committee is:
Mark Ellison (Edinburgh University)
David Powers (Flinders University)
Walter Daelemans (KUB Tilburg, Antwerp University)
The program committee is the organizing committee plus others needed
to broaden the interests of the committee and accommodate the full
range of papers solicited.
Correspondence should be sent to:
T Mark Ellison
Centre for Cognitive Science
Edinburgh University
2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh EH8 9LW, UK
Tel. +44 (131) 650-4416
Fax. +44 (131) 650-6626
email: conll97cogsci.ed.ac.uk
PAPER SUBMISSION
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What: original research, not published elsewhere
a completed study is prefered to proposals and progress reports
originality, topicality and clarity will be the assessment
criteria.
How Much: no more than 10 (A4) pages.
How: initial submissions can be in ASCII or postscript
submission wrapper SHOULD identify the authors
submitted texts SHOULD NOT identify the author(s)
submissions must be sent by email to conll97cogsci.ed.ac.uk
final manuscripts should use LaTeX using the ACL submissions
style (aclsub.sty) available from the ACL LISTSERV
When: submissions due by APRIL 7, 1997
acceptance notification by MAY 2, 1997
final (accepted) versions due MAY 30, 1997
REGISTRATION
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Registration is open only to those registered for the main ACL/EACL
conference (see http://horacio.ieec.uned.ed/cl97/). There will be an
additional fee for the workshop (yet to be determined).
Further information will be posted on
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~conll97/ as it comes to hand.
ACL/EACL reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the number of
participants is below 25 persons.